Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated
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Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated
this book it's a must even if you don't believe in god. descartes tried to prove the existence of god using the proofs of existing of everything else that's around us. well, i don't believe that god shuld or can be proved by pure logic...cause in a world of pure logic the concept of god wouldn't make any sense. none the less we should get to that conclusion yourself by reading this one !
Difficult Read:
This book was translated from old French. It was in English but I could barely make sense of it and i'm into these kinds of books. I don't know whether it was his style that I didn't like or it was just plain hard to read. Could be because it was written so long ago. This book has words from the 1500's that no one uses anymore. The book discusses the soul and the body. Physics, Astronomy , Medicine and Science. This is 100 pages of heavy stuff. If you are very patient, interested in Philosophy and very... more info
Had to write a school term paper:
I had to write a school term paper. I chose Mediation. After researching it a bit, I changed the paper's subject. I only looked through this book I have not read it.
The best introduction to modern philosophy in a reliable and cheap edition!:
Descartes' meditations really is the place to start for thinking through the philosophical obsessions of the modern era -- the value of skepticism, the nature and extent of knowledge, the relation between mind and body, the role of theology in a rational account of the universe, subjectivity vs. objectivity, the primacy of the subject, freedom, etc. This is a book that can be read for these themes even by those who are encountering it for the first time without guidance. At the same time this is a book... more info
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